Bob Buford Quotes
The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all....It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well...you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
-
That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
-
I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
-
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
-
I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
-
To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
-
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
-
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
-
Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
-
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
-
I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
-
I believe in my music.
-
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
-
I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
-
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
-
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
-
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
-
I just wanna hear my own voice.
-
I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.
-
You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
-
I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.
-
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
-
Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.
-
The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all....It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well...you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.
